cvs commit: src/sys/sys queue.h
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Sun Mar 5 00:43:35 PST 2006
Joseph Koshy <jkoshy at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Maxime Henrion <mux at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Log:
> > Cast the pointer to void * before casting it back to struct type * in
> > STAILQ_LAST. This quiets a warning from GCC about increased required
> > alignment for the cast.
> Doesn't this trade a compile time warning for a runtime fault on those
> architectures where alignment matters?
Unless the stailq head has been corrupted, we know that the result of
the expression is correctly aligned for a pointer to struct type.
DES
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